On this day: November 7

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die in Bolivia, Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize, FDR wins an unprecedented fourth term, Steve McQueen dies, and Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive, all on this day.

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1943: Folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, whose popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation, is born under the birth name Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.

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